Does Business Culture Shape, Graduate Entrepreneurial and thinking psychology Abilities in the Vocational School Perspectives?

Abstract

In this study,we examine whether graduates' entrepreneurial abilities are associated with quality industrial practices, workshop quality, business incubators, and business culture.We also explore how much business culture acts as a moderator. A structural equation model (SEM) was used to analyze the data collected in the field. A quantitative survey design was conducted to investigate responses from school principals, staff, teachers, and students at private vocational schools in Samarinda, East Kalimantan. The study’s results show that industrial practices, workshop quality, and business culture have a positive and crucial impact on graduates' entrepreneurial abilities. Business culture does not strengthen the relationship between quality industrial practice and workshop quality on graduates' entrepreneurial abilities. Still, it can enhance the relationship between business incubators and graduates' entrepreneurial abilities. These findings indicate that the entrepreneurial abilities of graduates in East Kalimantan can achieve optimal results if the school environment implements a business culture by involving other elements with the support of partnerships with the private sector; the aim is to form a technopreneur character making businesses profitable, having professional business management, and maintaining the business in the long term, running the business independently in the future. These findings can help policymakers in Indonesia improve graduates' entrepreneurial skills at a broader level, including all public and private schools at provincial and even national levels.